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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






2. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






3. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






4. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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5. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






6. r-controlled syllable






7. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






8. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






9. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






10. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






11. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






12. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






13. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






14. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






15. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






16. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






17. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






18. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






19. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






20. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






21. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






22. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






23. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






24. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






26. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






28. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






29. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






30. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






31. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






32. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






33. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






34. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






35. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






36. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






37. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






38. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






39. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






40. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






41. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






42. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






43. English as a second language






44. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






45. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






46. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






47. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






48. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






49. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






50. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.